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New Zealand stream postulated authorised standing as ‘a person’
- Updated: March 16, 2017
Whanganui River. Pic/YouTube
Wellington: New Zealand’s Whanganui River has gained a possess temperament with all a analogous rights, duties and liabilities of a authorised person, after a 170-year battle, a media reported on Thursday.
Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Bill, that upheld a third reading in Parliament on Wednesday, will settle a new authorised horizon for a river, stuff.co.nz reported.
It recognized a stream as an indivisible and vital whole from a plateau to a sea.
The stream is a dedicated and worshiped current to New Zealand’s Maori Iwi people and a interests will now be represented by an Indigenous group.
Among other things, a stream could now be represented in justice proceedings, Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson said.
“I know a initial desire of some people will contend it’s flattering bizarre to give a healthy apparatus a authorised personality.
“But it’s no foreigner than family trusts, or companies or incorporated societies,” The New Zealand Herald quoted Finlayson as saying.
Long worshiped by New Zealand’s Maori people, a river’s interests will now be represented by dual people.
The Whanganui River Deed of Settlement was sealed in 2014 and legislation was introduced in 2016.